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Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform
LondonSource: WhatJobs
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Overview
In this role, you will architect and build scalable, API-first platforms and features across front-end and back-end. You will own reliability, DevOps practices, and production readiness while guiding technical trade-offs. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve sustainability-focused problems at scale, shaping a modular, event-driven architecture. This is an opportunity to drive tangible impact in industrial decarbonization through AI-enabled enterprise software.
Responsibilities
Lead design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessible UIs
Deliver AI-native features spanning carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning
Evolve platform to modular, event-driven, API-first components
Provide technical direction on scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact
Own reliability and operations including telemetry, SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement
Champion DevOps practices: CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and on-call rotations
Collaborate with Platform Engineers in a lean DevOps model and assume application-level DevOps scope
Mentor engineers, promote best practices, and raise technical standards
Ensure code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability
Own the quality of deliverables through test automation and production readiness
Partner with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering and other teams on discovery, trade-offs, and delivery
Apply a product- and customer-led mindset to solving pain points with scalable engineering solutions
Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve architecture and ways of working
Key requirements
Strong full-stack software engineering experience across front-end and back-end
Solid experience with modern front-end technologies, notably React or similar
Back-end experience, ideally GoLang or equivalent
Experience designing and building scalable APIs and cloud-native applications
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